CES: Retailers go into hiding

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Given the state of retailers — what with consumer electronics sellers like Circuit City filing for bankruptcy protection — it wouldn’t be surprising if they kept away. After all, who’s in the mood for bulk buys of fancy new gadgets when consumers are so tightfisted with their dollars?

There was no International Retail Power Panel, which has featured the CEOs of Best Buy and Circuit City in the past. And the one retail panel advertised on the CES website earlier — International Success Stories from Retail — was also cancelled today, without explanation.

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Anupreeta Das is a New York-based reporter covering technology, media and telecoms deals. She has previously written for The Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor and many Indian publications. She is the 2009 recipient of a Society of Business Editors and Writers breaking news award for her coverage of Microsoft's failed bid for Yahoo. Das also won a 2006 Foreign Press Association award and an Overseas Press Club scholarship. Das holds graduate degrees in journalism and international political economy from Boston University and the London School of Economics. She speaks fluent Hindi, Assamese and a little Mandarin.